The former head of the public library system for the town of Revere, MA was charged with embezzling over $200,ooo in a scheme where he ordered materials payed for by the town, and sold them himself on ebay.
According to the Boston Globe, he faces multiple criminal counts under Massachusetts law, including larceny over $250, procurement fraud, and embezzlement by a city officer. He was indicted on 21 felony charges total. If convicted of the embezzlement, he faces significant a prison sentence.
The procurement fraud counts are incidents of changing the city purchase orders to suggest that they were legitimate items for the library, instead of whatever product he ended up selling online.
Public employee embezzlement like this always makes the news. And prosecutors are serious about cracking down on public corruption embezzlement cases. Many states like Massachusetts even have additional felony charges for “embezzlement by a city official”.
Citizens are often up and arms amount government employee theft, so there is always a strong political element to these cases, where district attorneys have to take a very tough stance and press for serious criminal penalties.
Particularly when the offenses seem so blatant, like in this case where the administrator brazenly stole over $200,000 of items from the town over many years.
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